How to win an FTL Run! Federation A, no pause, hard mode edition!

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@libeidi7138 6 жыл бұрын

That's a great run! With so many bad rng at the first 2 phase one, but then your less than 5 valid point engine dodged so many missiles!

@rand118 6 жыл бұрын

Yes, sometimes RNG runs out of bad things to happen to me, hah!

@libeidi7138 6 жыл бұрын

Hey Rand when you are free, here's a new challenge suggested for you: racist captain. Throughout the game, all crews must be from the same species, all humans, all engi, etc; if you start with a mixed crew, they must be eliminated before you reach sector 2. Ship is irrelevant, a human, rockman, etc, team can control any mantis cruiser, zoltan ship, etc. Rebellion is allowed, meaning a newcomer mantis, rockman, etc, is allowed to stay as the succeeding captain, but all previous existing crew (different race than the newcomer) must die. The new team afterwards must be the same species as the next captain. Crew members of different species joined by events/store are allowed to stay for one jump only - after putting out the fire/repaired the engine within that beacon, they must then be dismissed. Allowed to keep crew of the same species from events and store. Drones of all kinds are allowed, clone bay allowed. This can be fun!

@Penningtontj 6 жыл бұрын

First and currently only ship I've won this damn game with, and even then it was a "mutually assured destruction" scenario with the Mothership's final stage.

@rand118 6 жыл бұрын

Hah, nice, mutually assured destruction is something I tried to avoid, but sometimes, the only way to win, hah! Grats on the win, btw!

@st._john_henry2241 5 жыл бұрын

Always wondered why the Fed. A isn't the first ship the game gives you. The Artillery is pretty garbage for experienced players who favor reliable defense or better thought out weapon systems over it, yet it can prove itself quite useful for new players beeing a system that basically cares for itself. The crew is also pretty well rounded up compared to the Kestrel A.

@rand118 5 жыл бұрын

I would guess because it's weaker early with only 1 weapon, it's more of a "Special" ship, with the whole artillery thing. That's my guess!

@quarteratom Жыл бұрын

You literally said that the only part of the ship not protected by the defense drone is the front. If hackig is gonna get through, it's likely on the front.

@polygondwanaland8390 3 жыл бұрын

I don't get the hate for artillery beam. It's kinda pointless in early zones, true. But in the late game when it's fully upgraded, if you don't take down the enemy shields fully in the first volley the artillery beam will have fired before the second volley, piercing shields. It's also on a separate system from weapons, making your firepower more resilient and preventing the issue you had with hacking. But if you neglect the artillery system, it just uses up a system slot and makes the ship worse than it could be.

@rand118 3 жыл бұрын

The reason I (and many others) don't like it is precisely because one of the points you made: it takes up a system slot. The ONLY time artillery is good imo is when you find NO good weapons in any of your stores. As long as you find one or 2 decent weapons, I would much rather have hacking, mind control, and cloaking than a slow beam I can't aim that requires a lot of scrap to upgrade. You mention Artillery being good late game, but my response to that is that I would much rather spend scrap on defense (shields/dodge) or hacking/weapon upgrades than artillery.

@polygondwanaland8390 3 жыл бұрын

@@rand118 But you can't make it not take up a system slot simply by ignoring it - by doing so you turn the Fed A into a two-system ship with nothing really going for it. Better to power and upgrade the systems you have than to waste the slot. It's not like it's a bad weapon - infinite shield pierce pike beam would be OP as a regular slot weapon. As for scrap costs, I haven't really found that to be a limiting factor for the artillery beam. You're spreading your weapon upgrades over two systems, meaning less scrap spent upgrading weapons power (which can get quite expensive). On hard mode I've found it totally viable to get artillery beam online, 5 evade, 4 shield bubbles and a defense drone by not upgrading weapons past 4 power.

@rand118 3 жыл бұрын

@@polygondwanaland8390 You are talking hard difficulty, correct? If I were to choose the 2 best systems to get, it would be hacking and cloaking. Cloaking costs 150, hacking costs 85, and you need to upgrade hacking to level 3, which is another 110 scrap. That's over 300 scrap for those 2 systems, not to mention the hundreds of scrap needed to get shields to level 4 and weapons to whatever level you need for the weapons you find. I'm not saying artillery is useless, but for the COST, it's less useful than spending scrap in ANY of the other systems I've mentioned, imo. It's fine if you like artillery, I'm telling you the reason it is still the least efficient system to invest in (in my opinion).

@polygondwanaland8390 3 жыл бұрын

@@rand118 Yes, hard difficulty. Where I'm saving scrap is hardly upgrading weapons at all, and heavily utilizing the artillery beam. By the end game I'll usually have 4 power in each of weapons and artillery (depending on weapon drops obviously) I don't disagree I'd rather have hacking, cloaking and mind control or drones. But you can't have three systems on the Fed A unless you choose to upgrade the artillery system. It's a unique ship and you might as well roll with it.

@S4LtyTrIcKs 6 жыл бұрын

What determines you would rather have mind control over your usual hacking and clocking?

@rand118 6 жыл бұрын

Often, it's dictated by what options you find at the store. The hacking/cloaking/teleporter has become a favorite because of the free crew kills in phase 1. However, sometimes you can't find or afford hacking and cloaking (cloaking being the single most expensive system in stores), so Mind control helps counter the Flagship Mind control in the final phase. It really depends on store RNG and scrap availability during the run.

@BeginswithPIE 4 жыл бұрын

If it makes anyone from outside of America feel better, Americans don't know the geography of America very well either. Our President didn't realize that New Mexico wasn't part of Mexico. = ) It's actually a miss quote, since he really just didn't realize that New Mexico was below Colorado, and was talking about building his beloved wall at the Colorado boarder. But it is still a funny quote. Just like when he said that immigrants were coming from South America and even further South, and they had all the pictures of terrorist penguins.

@rand118 4 жыл бұрын

Lol, I'd love to argue with you, but Americans are pretty notorious for being ignorant of geography, even our own. Of course, we certainly have people who DO know geography, but our President is definitely not one of those (neither am I, but I'd like to think I wouldn't make the same stupid mistakes he has).

@thesauce1199 5 жыл бұрын

what i do is when the flagship hacks my weapons i hack their hacking so then i can destroy the hacker drone. then i can keep on doing this until it hacks something i want but dont really need. like sensors

@rand118 5 жыл бұрын

Hmm, not a bad idea, although this only works if you have hacking. Also, if your weapons require hacking shields or piloting to consistently do damage, this could also be an issue. But I'll try to keep this strategy in mind!